Regulation and oversight of gun sales reduces trafficking to criminals
Comprehensive regulation of gun sellers appears to reduce the trafficking of guns to criminals, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Preventing the diversion of guns to criminals is important because 85 percent of guns recovered by police ...AVMA Urges Outlawing Trafficking of Chimps, Monkeys and Nonhuman Primates and Pets
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing concerns about the spread of disease and injury, inhumane treatment of animals, and ecological damage, Dr. Gail Golab, PhD, DVM, director of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Animal Welfare Division, spoke on the dan...Protein-dependent 'switch' regulates intracellular trafficking in epithelial cells
NEW YORK (Dec. 10, 2007) -- With findings highlighted on a recent cover of Developmental Cell, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have shed important new light on key trafficking mechanisms within epithelial cells. Epithelial cells line the outside of nearly all organs. ...Report Finds That Raids Are Not an Effective Tool Against Human Trafficking
Calls on Obama and Biden to Develop Alternative Approaches NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report concludes that so-called "rescue" raids are not an effective way to stop trafficking in persons and in fact can be counter-productive. The report from the Sex Workers Proj...Transplant experts convene at ASN Renal Week 2008 to discuss organ trafficking
With the number of patients in need of organ transplants on the rise, an increasing number of patients are turning to unconventional sources for organs. Individuals are willing to donate their kidneys for financial incentive, particularly in developing countries where the poverty rate is high, res...Human Trafficking Booming in Eastern Europe, but Governments Dont Seem to Care
Soviet Union has fallen, there is no way communism can be restored again, the new ruling elite gloat in countries that were once part of that setup. But poverty, prostitution and crime thrive like never before in that region. Young girls are the worst victims of the churning. On a per ca...Illegal Drug Trafficking Pose A Great Threat For HIV Epidemic In Northeast
Heroin and synthetic pharmaceuticals illegally trafficked from Myanmar into India's northeast has led to a rise in drug abuse and an HIV epidemic in the region// , says a United Nations study. "Drug trafficking across the common border of Myanmar and the northeastern state of Manipur, Mizoram ...Travel And Tourism Industry Calls For Global Efforts To Limit Sexual Trafficking Of Children
An international conference, 'United Front for Children: Global Efforts to Combat Sexual Trafficking of Children in Travel and Tourism' // to be held on the 21st of April at the University of Minnesota will focus on ways and means to curb sex trafficking, at a global level. The event to be held at ...DNA Helps Reunite Children With Their Families
... are under 17. It is estimated that by 2010, human trafficking will be the No. 1 crime worldwide. Arthu...manitarian effort using DNA testing to deter human trafficking of children and help reunite abducted and homeless...ll be obtained from children associated with human trafficking whether through prostitution, forced labor, milita...Amicus Therapeutics Commences Phase 3 Trial Evaluating Amigal(TM) for the Treatment of Fabry Disease
...idney failure and increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Amigal is designed to selectively bind to and stabilize a-Gal A, which facilitates proper trafficking of the enzyme to the lysosomes, where it is needed to break down GL-3. Fabry disease is estimated to affect approximately 5,000 to 10,000 people...EntreMed Presents Data for Phase 2 Study of MKC-1 in Metastatic Breast Cancer
...y, binding importin-b and tubulin, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis. MKC-1 arrests mitosis by inhibiting an intracellular target important in cellular trafficking that has been shown to be involved in cell division. MKC- 1 has been shown to inhibit mitotic spindle formation, prevent chromosome segregation in the...Amicus Therapeutics Presents Data From Preclinical and Phase 1 Studies of Amigal for Fabry Disease
.... This deficiency leads to lysosomal accumulation of GL-3, which is believed to cause the various symptoms of Fabry disease. Amigal facilitates proper trafficking of the enzyme to the lysosomes, the compartments in the cell where it is needed to break down GL-3. At the ACMG meeting, Amicus scientists will p...Amicus Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data from Studies of Plicera for Gaucher Disease
... accumulation of glucocerebroside inside certain cells, which is believed to cause the various symptoms of Gaucher disease. Plicera facilitates proper trafficking of the enzyme to the lysosomes, the compartments in the cell where it is needed to break down glucocerebroside. The following is a summary of the...Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells
As you read this, cells in your eye are transmitting information to your brain, while cells in your heart and arteries work just as hard to keep that brain alive. Every one of these cells -- and others throughout the body -- depends on an internal process called endocytosis to keep the flow of cell...Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease
...tional. "We know who folds them up, but our big question is: Who takes them over there? It could be that chaperones and helpers both are important for trafficking receptors. If we can inhibit the trafficking, we can inhibit the hormone response." Hsp90, is one of the most common of the ubiquitous heat shock ...Fate in fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder
...ta vesicles to the apical region of the daughter cells. If this complicated trafficking of Delta does not occur, the ability of Delta to activate Notch is compromi...the Arp2/3 complex. In our work we found that WASp is also required for the trafficking of Delta to the top of the actin structure," said Bellen. Notch signal...Advance in understanding cellulose synthesis
...omplexes go as they build the cell wall, but microtubules also organize the trafficking and delivery of the cellulose synthase complexes to their place of action. They also looked at the role in trafficking of a structural element called the actin cytoskeleton that helps move organ...Tulsa County Sheriff Selects BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System
...way to communicate with each other in mutual aid situations. The Sheriff's Office expects that this will help in the fight against narcotics and human trafficking along the I-44 corridor, which traverses Tulsa County and links the southern U.S. border with the Midwest. "MobileCop lets us share critical informati...DNA-Prokids: Genetic identification against traffic in human beings
...a-prokids.org ), an international project on human trafficking prevention and fight using genetic identification ...roximately two million people are victims of human trafficking across the world. UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moo...as a programme for genetic identification of human trafficking victims and their relatives, serves "a triple obje...Tulsa County Sheriff Selects BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System
...way to communicate with each other in mutual aid situations. The Sheriff's Office expects that this will help in the fight against narcotics and human trafficking along the I-44 corridor, which traverses Tulsa County and links the southern U.S. border with the Midwest. "MobileCop lets us share critical informati...CSHL researchers identify gene that helps plant cells keep communication channels open
...mata," says Jackson, whose lab at CSHL is devoted to the study of plant genetics. "Our study suggests a mechanism through which plant cells can adjust trafficking in these channels through the various stages of development." The team's findings will be published in the Feb 17th issue of Proceedings of the Natio...New insights into a leading poultry disease and its risks to human health
...sited into a public gene database. Among the disease causing parts of the plasmid pAPEC-1 are a series of genes that make up proteins responsible for trafficking nutrients in and out of bacteria, called ABC transporters, which may be used to develop vaccine candidates. In addition to nutrition, many other ABC t...Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research
...eins, called fluorescent timers (FTs), can change their color from blue to red over a matter of hours. "These FTs will enable scientists to study the trafficking of cellular proteins and to provide accurate insight into the timing of intracellular processes, such as activation or inhibition of gene expression o...AST Endorses Istanbul Declaration to End Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
American Society of Transplantation Admonishes Citizens of Rich Nations To End Reliance on Donors in Less Affluent Nations MT. LAUREL, N.J., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Transplantation (AST) endorses The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant ...Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease
...termined why the cyclic peptides are protective. They found that the cyclic peptides do not affect a system of transport inside cells known as vesicle trafficking which was a surprise, since alpha-synuclein and other proteins that have been implicated in human Parkinson's disease are believed to play a role in ...Celsense, Inc Receives NIH Grant to Translate Cell Imaging Technology for Clinical Use
... NIH funds human clinical testing of the cell trafficking MRI reagent, Cell Sense. Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus) ... Company involve proprietary imaging agents that can be used to observe the trafficking of cells using magnetic resonance techniques. Celsense’s mission is t...Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells
...ategy to study how single viral RNAs travel from the nucleus of a cell to a virus assembly site, how mRNAs are regulated by location and time, and RNA trafficking in neurons," added Santangelo. ...Cordex Pharma Presents 'New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicines' on January 29
...fication. The ramifications of his work extend to all major classes of proteins: ion channels, receptors, G proteins, transcription factors, membrane trafficking proteins and numerous enzymes that are now known to be regulated by S-nitrosylation. Accumulating evidence suggests that many disease states are asso...Abeome Forms First Class Scientific Advisory Board
... Associate Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia, has a distinguished research career focused on intracellular trafficking and cell signaling of specific membrane receptors on the cell surface of B lymphocytes, the source of antibody production. "We are pleased to assemb...QXL 520 C2 maleimide from AnaSpec
Description:...574 nm. Solvent System: DMF or DMSO. References: Evans NA, et al. (2001). Visualizing differences in ligand-induced beta-arrestin-GFP interactions and trafficking between three recently characterized G protein-coupled receptors. J Neurochem 77, 476-85; Nasarabadi S, et al. (1999). Simultaneous detection of TaqMa...jetSI-ENDO-FluoF from Polyplus Transfection
Description:...he powerful siRNA transfection reagent. These reagents are used to determine the transfection efficiency or investigate the intracellular delivery and trafficking of siRNAs. More than 95 % of the cell population is transfected....jetSI-ENDO-FluoR from Polyplus Transfection
Description:...he powerful siRNA transfection reagent. These reagents are used to determine the transfection efficiency or investigate the intracellular delivery and trafficking of siRNAs. More than 95 % of the cell population is transfected....